A spokesman for the Met Office said: “For some regions such as north west England, North Wales and east Scotland, the rainfall records have been broken by a very wide margin with some places seeing more than double the expected winter rainfall.”

Meanwhile statistics covering last December to February reveals the average temperature in Wales was 6.4 degrees Celsius - the highest recorded in winter since records began, smashing the previous record of 6.25 degrees Celsius in 1988/89.

Temperatures across most of North Wales and the UK during the period were more than 2 degrees Celsius above average.

December 19 saw temperatures in Prestatyn hit 16.7 degrees Celsius with the lowest in North Wales recorded at Capel Curig on February 24 at -4.8 degrees Celsius.

The spokesman for the Met Office said: “The latest end of month statistics show it was provisionally the warmest winter for England and Wales since the record series began in 1910, while it was the third-warmest for the UK as a whole.”

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